Warsaw, Poland - Both India and China will suffer if the conflict develops. Their growth requires not only moderately priced energy, but also global security and global prosperity, and these are hard to keep with the Middle East in fire.
Although China probably enjoys seeing the U.S. in trouble, whether in the Middle East or elsewhere, the present conflict is a problem for both Beijing and Delhi. For both oil prices and supplies are concerns for both. For China, Israel is an important supplier of weapons. For India, Islamic radicalism has always been the greatest danger and the Middle Eastern fighting fuels radicalism while making it difficult for the present rather pro-American Indian government to co-operate closely with the U.S.
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